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Title: The Trouble with Mary by Millie Criswell ISBN: 0-8041-1950-3 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Trouble with Mary? None!
Comment: She's delightful.....which I was optomistic she would be since the book has a great endorsement from none other than Janet Evanovich, the queen of one liners and sexual tension between the sexes. The only thing I had a hard time grasping is how anyone.... even if it is Dan Dallagher, the heart stopping hero, could hate Italian food! I didn't know it was possible to turn ones nose up at cannoli. Anyway, back to the subject of this book, it's funny, romantic and just a wee bit off kilter compared to your average leading character with a riotious Italian family. I loved the characters and can't wait to get my hands on another Millie Criswell book.
Rating: 5
Summary: There's something troubling Mary Russo...
Comment: It's not her large Italian family. It's not her new restaurant. It's a certain food critic who obviously has no taste buds! After all, what does an Irishman know about Italian cooking? She's not going to let his gorgeous green eyes distract her from the fact he's a pain in her well-rounded butt!
Dan Gallagher, ex-sports writer turned food critic, has annoyed Mary Russo. But as she reads him the riot-act, he realizes annoyance looks good on her. Lucky for him just about everything he does annoys her even more. Why, when he finally proposes, she's more annoyed than ever. Women! Who can figure them out?? Certainly not him.
The Trouble With Mary is a delightful family portrait. You'll fall in love with the Russo clan, from their opinionated mama, to their shoplifting grandma. And you'll know that Dan and Mary are a match made in heaven. The Trouble is...once you pick up the book you won't be able to set it down until it's done! I can't wait for What to do About Annie!!
Rating: 2
Summary: The Trouble? Flat Hero...Tried too Hard for Laughs...
Comment: I really was looking forward to this book, I really was. I come from a large Italian family and the character's family's traits were so similar to their comments and beliefs and criticisms that I thought for certain this would make me crack up and I did, for the first two chapters, but somehow it started to taper off.
The situations began to get a bit much and the heroine was IMO a little too good for the hero. The friend Annie, which coincidentally is the character for the sequel, 'What to do About Annie' was just annoying. I couldn't get past her weird tendencies long enough to like her. The constant going back and forth of 'pow' and 'zing' and 'oy vey' that was supposed to be hysterical got tiresome in the least.
The romance between the hero Dan and Mary the heroine was unconvincing and almost boring. Dan got on my bad side right from the beginning when he thought the woman who owned the restaurant he criticized in his food article was 'short, fat and had hideous red hair and a mouth like his '97 Explorer,' which wasn't true, we never figure out who he is talking about anyway and it definitely is NOT Mary. I am guessing he means Annie, but IMO it was shallow and he was unworthy of being a hero. Especially when Annie is supposed to be the heroine of the sequel. So in other words, Mary's new boyfriend thinks her best friend in the whole world is 'short, fat and hideous'. Nice guy.
I also noticed the author seemed to try to convey a similar writing style to Janet Evanovich which I thojght was ridiculous.
Even though I wasn't crazy about the hero and the story became riddled with forced humor, the writing was decent and the author did try. It was clear she comes from an Italian family herself.
Mary Russo is unemployed and her huge Italian family is driving her crazy. She has no love life and no social life. She decides to open her own Italian resteraunt without the blessing of her family and recieves a blow immediately when a 'food critic' and former sport's writer says her resteraunt was lousy and that the food was noting great.
Mary is furious and goes after this critic, only to discover that he is gorgeous and there is a weird attraction brewing between them. The trouble with all this? They can't stand one another, yet they can't keep their hands off one another...
Tracy Talley~@
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Title: What to Do About Annie? by Millie Criswell ISBN: 0804119511 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Trials of Angela by MILLIE CRISWELL ISBN: 0804119937 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mad about Mia by MILLIE CRISWELL ISBN: 0804119945 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Take a Chance on Me by Susan Donovan ISBN: 0312983751 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Staying Single by Millie Criswell ISBN: 0373441754 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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